1 min 1 image: Deserie Flores

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Deserie Flores

Deserie Flores
Jeff widener, "Tank Man"
1989

I selected this image because it speaks to me about rebellion and standing up for what you believe in even if it means standing alone when all odds are against you. Photo journalist, Jeff Widener, made this image of a man who stood in front of tanks when the Chinese military were forcefully trying to putting an end to Tianamen Square Protest. Even though it is obvious that the tanks can easily take him down, the man stands firmly and holds his position without intimidation. In a video taken by a spectator the tanks later moved to the side to pass. For me this image did not stand out because of technique, but because of the message it portrayed.

ABOUT

This blog was inspired by the 1 Image 1 Minute written column in X-TRA and subsequent live iterations of the project by Micol Hebron. The inspiration for the 1 Image 1 Minute column was a similar project produced by Belgian director Agnès Varda (and later written about by Rosalind Krauss) for French television in 1983.

For this blog (and their assignment), students in Niku Kashef's photography classes are asked to select a photograph (that they did not make) that inspires or intrigues them in some way and to speak about it for exactly 1 minute (roughly 150 written words). Students post their name, the artists' name, title of the photograph, year the photograph was made and the medium along with their ~150 words.

In the second part of the assignment, students are asked to either use the image they chose to speak to OR a new image and make an inspiration image based on the photographic/2d design aspects of that image (eg direction/type of light, perspective, depth of field, focus, color palate, etc).

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